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Professor McMichael will be a fellow of Corpus Christi College.
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Professor Russell will be a fellow of St Peter's College.
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On the recommendation of the Law Board, the General Board has conferred the title of Visiting Professor in Law on J. STAPLETON (B.SC. New South Wales, PH.D. Adelaide), Research Professor in Law at the Australian National University, for a period of three years from 1 October 2000.
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Members of the University are asked to note that the Social Studies Faculty Centre has ceased to exist as such, and that the Social Studies Faculty Centre Library has been renamed the Politics, International Relations, and Sociology Library.
The `Library' field on the OLIS system has now been changed from `SocStu' to `PIRS'.
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The Prize for the best research project (paper 15) has been awarded to E. JAMES FRISWELL, University College.
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Passmore Edwards Prize 2000, Honour Moderations: CHARLES DRURY, New College
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Shell Prize for outstanding performance in the Preliminary Examinations: YIU HON CHAN, Wadham College
Farnell Prize for best performance in Electrical Engineering: NAVARATNAM RAMANAN, Balliol College
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Edgell Sheppee Prize for best performance in an Engineering Part II project by an EEM candidate: DIMITRIS MELIOS, Balliol College
Dan Gowler Prize for best performance in Organisational Behaviour and Industrial Relations by an E(m)EM candidate: SAMIR D. MAHA, Wadham College
I.Mech.E. Certificate for an outstanding project in Mechanical Engineering: SAMIR D. MAHA, Wadham College
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Edgell Sheppee Prize for an excellent performance in Engineering Science: JOHN H.W. ENTHOVEN, New College
Edgell Sheppee Prize for Laboratory or Drawing Office work: PATRICK G. THOMSON, Worcester College
I.Chem.E. Prize for best performance in Chemical Engineering: CLAIRE HAMILTON, Jesus College
ICE Prize for best performance in Civil Engineering: RICHARD H. GIBBS, Keble College
IEE Prize for best performance in Electrical Engineering: KHAI Y. FOK, Mansfield College
I.Mech.E. Certificate for the best student in Mechanical Engineering and nomination to the Frederic Barnes Waldron Prize: HELEN C.R. GOVETT, St John's College
I.Mech.E. Prize for the best project in Mechanical Engineering: JAMES T.M. BARR, St Catherine's College
Motz Prize for the best project in Electrical Engineering: AMAR PAREKH, Pembroke College
BOC/Shuftan Memorial Prize for the best project in Chemical Engineering: PARVEZ H. CHOWDHURY, St Peter's College
Unilever Prize for the best project in Control Engineering: JAMES T.W. LEE, Oriel College
Unipart Industries Prize for the best performance in the Production Engineering Paper: C.L. KENNETH GOH, Pembroke College
Gibbs Prize for the best Part I Project (joint award):
IAIN C. CROUCH, University College
DANIEL N.F. HARRISON, Wadham College
PATRICK T. O'G. ROCHE, Worcester College
GREGORY A. THOMAS, New College
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Ronald Victor Janson Prize for the best third-/fourth-year project in Electronic Communications: AMELIA A. RESHEPH, Somerville College
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Proxime accesserunt: CHLOE CARPENTER, Brasenose College, and CATHERINE BUTTON, Magdalen College
Rupert Cross Prize for the best performance in the paper in Evidence: STEPHEN FREE, Magdalen College
John Morris Prize for the best performance in the paper in the Conflict of Laws: JESSICA SPEIGHT, Keble College
Herbert Hart Prize for the best performance in the paper in Jurisprudence and Political Theory: SANDEEP SREEKUMAR, Corpus Christi College
Clifford Chance Prize for the best performance in the Magister Juris: BORIS ROTENBURG, Brasenose College
Proxime accessit: ROBERT SPANO, University College
Monckton Chambers Prize for the best performance in Competition Law: NICHOLAS SCOLA, Jesus College
Simms Prize for the best performance in Crime, Justice, and the Penal System: PUI WU, Hertford College
Allen & Overy Prize for the best performance in Corporate Finance Law: ROBERTO SILEO, St Catherine's College
Allen & Overy Prize for the best performance in Corporate Insolvency Law: MATTHEW COOK, Oriel College
Ralph Chiles CBE Prize for the best performance in Comparative Human Rights: STEPHEN FREE, Magdalen College
Ralph Chiles CBE Prize for the best performance in Intellectual Property: CHRISTOPHER STOTHERS, Brasenose College
Civil Procedure Prize: ROBERT SPANO, University College
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Appointed by
Mr Vice-Chancellor ex officio
Professor M.J. Walport Council
Professor J.O. Thomas General Board
Professor Sir John Pattison General Board
Dr K.A. Fleming Medical Sciences Division
Professor J.I. Bell Medical Sciences Division
Professor J.J.B. Jack Medical Sciences Division
Dr C. Bunch Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust
The Dean of Christ Church Christ Church
Dr I.D. Thompson Christ Church
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English for Academic Studies and English as a Foreign Language registration: EFL registrations will take place in Noughth Week, 2--6 October, 9 a.m. to 12 noon and 2--4 p.m.
General introductory visits on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 11.30 a.m., 12 noon, 3 p.m., 3.45 p.m., and 4.15 p.m. (maximum of thirty per visit; sign-up sheets will be available).
General introductory visits daily at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. (maximum of thirty per visit; sign-up sheets will be available).
Brush up your Italian (four hours): Tuesday and Thursday, 3 p.m.--5 p.m.
German grammar revision (four hours): Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 10--11 a.m.
CALL German workshop (four hours): Tuesday and Thursday, 1--3 p.m.
English grammar for students of German: Wednesday and Friday, 12.15--1.15 p.m.
(Note: all of these courses carry a £5 registration and materials fee.)
French: Monday and Wednesday 3 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m.--12 noon
German: Tuesday and Thursday, 11 a.m.--1 p.m.
Spanish: Tuesday and Thursday, 11 a.m.--1 p.m.
Russian: Tuesday, 11 a.m.--1 p.m. and 2--4 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday at 4 p.m.: Keeping up your French or German language skills independently with the Lambda Project (The Oxford Foreign Language Maintenance and Development Project).
Friday at 1.30 p.m.: Using computers to learn a foreign language.
Summer Vacation opening times apply until the end of September.
The Language Centre will be open for private study throughout the long vacation from 8.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Further details of all courses and activities may be obtained from Angela Pinkney at the Language Centre, 12 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HT (telephone: Oxford (2)83360, e-mail: admin@lang.ox.ac.uk, Internet: http://units.ox.ac.uk/departments/langcentre/).
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A private view and wine reception, open to Senior Members of the University, will take place on Saturday, 30 September, 5–7.30 p.m.
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Arrangements for the two-week period between the closure of the temporary Upper Reserve in the PPE reading room and the opening of the Upper Reading Room itself will now have to be extended to run for at least three weeks.
During this time books held in the temporary Upper Reserve in PPE will be transferred to reserves in the Radcliffe Camera, to the Lower Reading Room or to PPE, as readers direct. The L ibrary hopes to avoid, but cannot rule out, further limitation of the numbers of books allowed in each reserve.
Open shelf material temporarily held in the stacks will now be unavailable for three weeks rather than the two weeks required by the book move.
There will inevitably be increased pressure on reader spaces throughout the Central Site reading rooms.
In addition, self-service photocopying will not now begin in the Old Library until 16 October at the earliest. However, the new service will be launched in the New Library and Radcliffe Camera on 9 October, as advertised. (See further details below.)
The Library greatly regrets this forced delay and apologises for the reductions in service that this must unfortunately cause.
As there are preservation rules governing the library collections (in particular as many of the books are deposited under copyright legislation, to form part of the national archive), readers will only be able to copy one page at a time, not `openings'. This method of photocopying is designed to minimise stress on the structure of the books, and the same restriction will apply to the staff-mediated service. Certain books will not be available for self-service photocopying, but may be copied through the staff-mediated service. Full details of the categories of material which cannot be copied on self-service machines will be publicised.
Initially only three reading rooms will offer self-service photocopying. This may be increased in line with demand. The self-service copiers will be in the Lower Radcliffe Camera (S.T. Lee Reading Room), Old Library Upper Reading Room, and New Library PPE Reading Room. (The opening of the Upper Reading Room will be delayed by approximately one week due to late-running renovation works.) There will be a procedure for transferring appropriate books to the reading rooms with copiers.
As a further improvement in service, the library will offer copies made on an overhead book scanner. This will enable staff to make bitonal scans (prints resembling photocopies) from books too fragile to be authorised for photocopying. These copies will be available under the standard twenty- four-hour turn-around time of the staff-mediated photocopying service—much quicker than the present arrangement where paper copies from microfilm have to be produced. Normally, `openings' will be available.
Prices for the staff-mediated photocopies have been held at 10 pence per page for more than twenty years. From 9 October, the price will be increased to 13 pence per page. Copies made on the overhead book scanner will be 57 pence per page or opening. tariff for postal copies will be greatly simplified, which will reduce queues in reading rooms. Self-service photocopying will be introduced at 9 pence per page.
Readers will be able to pay for all copies, self-service and staff-mediated, using the new Oxford University Library Services Photocopy Card, which has been introduced into several libraries during the summer. These reusable cards can be bought from automatic dispensers or over the counter, and can be used and recharged at any library participating in the scheme. They are similar to plastic phonecards and carry a cash value that is used up as photocopies are made, but can be recharged or topped-up at coin-operated machines as needed. Initially, four libraries are taking part in the scheme: the Radcliffe Science Library, the Bodleian Law Library, the Taylor Institution Library, and the Modern Languages Faculty Library. The Indian Institute Library and Rhodes House Library will join the scheme along with the Central Bodleian in October, and more libraries will adopt the card in due course.
Further information about the new service may be obtained from Ben Bergonzi, Head of Imaging, Bodleian Library (telephone: (2)77241, e-mail: bcb@bodley.ox.ac.uk).
Each session will begin at 9.30 a.m. promptly and will last for about an hour.
Twelve places are available on each of the following dates in October: 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 17, 19, 20, 24, and 27.
Readers who wish to attend one of these sessions are asked to book a place by entering their name, college/department address, and University Card number (as appropriate) on the list which is available at the Main Enquiry Desk in the Lower Reading Room. Please give your name to the staff at the Main Enquiry Desk when you attend.
`Making the most of the Bodleian Library' sessions continue throughout most of the year on Tuesdays and Fridays at the same time. Exact dates are given on the sign-up sheets.
Talks will be taking place in various locations, including the Lower Reading Room and the Lower Camera. Similar talks will take place on a smaller scale in other reading rooms during this week and the week following.
The Library is aware that these sessions will cause inconvenience to readers, but believes that it is important to offer library induction to new students during their first week here.
RLG's Archival Resources provides centralised access for searching and retrieval of archival finding aids that have been encoded using the SGML/XML based encoding standard, Encoded Archival Description (EAD). On-line searches can be undertaken across all the holdings available through the gateway, and individual finding aids can be downloaded and searched. It should be noted that in many cases, electronic catalogues represent only a fraction of an institution's holdings, but the proportion will increase continually. The Bodleian Library has an on-going programme of retrospective conversion of catalogues of manuscripts, and these will be available through the RLG gateway as well as through the Bodleian's own Web site.
Archival Resources also includes access to RLG's AMC
(Archival and Mixed Collections) file. AMC provides researchers with comprehensive access to brief, collection-level information for nearly half a million collections of manuscripts and archives.
A list of the libraries with archive collections represented in the site can be found on the introductory pages to Archival Resources. The majority of libraries on the site are American, and include the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Getty Research Institute, Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library and Yale University. Other libraries on the site include the Australian Science Archives Project, the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the National Archives of Australia, the National Archives of South Africa, the National Gallery of Canada, the National Library of Australia, the Public Record Office, the University of Durham, the University of South Africa, the University of Warwick, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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This chair has been newly created as a result of funding being generously provided by KPMG. It is open to candidates with expertise in taxation law.
A non-stipendiary fellowship at Worcester College is attached to the professorship.
Applications (ten copies, or one only from overseas candidates), naming three persons who have agreed to act as referees on this occasion, should be received not later than 30 October by the Registrar, University Offices, Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD, from whom further particulars may be obtained. The further particulars may also be found at http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/fp/.
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Any member of the University who has no knowledge of the Chinese language and who wishes to learn Chinese reading skills is welcome to participate in the project. Numbers will be limited to fifteen participants.
Those wishing to join the scheme should contact Mr Shio-yun Kan at the Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Institute for Chinese Studies, Walton Street, Oxford OX1 2HG (telephone: Oxford (2)80393, e-mail: kan@server.orient.ox.ac.uk).
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